Partnerships for Dual Preparation in Elementary,Secondary,and Special Education Programs

Abstract

In partnership with local schools, faculty members in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) began planning a field-based dual licensure program in special education and elementary education in 1993. The resulting program redefined the roles of university faculty members, school-level mentor teachers, and school administrators in teacher preparation and school renewal. The implementation of the elementary dual preparation program in 1996 helped forge new school—university partnerships that were vitally important in working through the issues that arose with the first 2-year cohort. In light of the resulting success of the elementary program and the need for qualified special educators at the secondary level, the program was expanded to allow secondary education majors to complete dual licensure in special education. The purposes of this article are to describe the rationale for implementing dual preparation partnership programs, the characteristics of the UHM dual preparation partnership programs in elementary and secondary education, the implementation and assessment of the first elementary dual preparation cohort, and the resulting modifications made to the UHM dual preparation programs.

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